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legalquestions
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 Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:07 am Post subject: New "conservative" president - just what does this |
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Help me out here. I'm hearing a lot about how "conservative" the incoming administration will be and how "liberal" the current administration has been. Exactly what is it he/they will be "conserving?"
I think sometimes the media (and people in general) are too quick to apply labels. Again, help me out here. |
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Milwaukiedave
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:15 am Post subject: |
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Maybe that's true, I guess it depends on how you look at things. It seems he will be more pro-business and try to loosen the regulations. Lee also wants to build a canal across Korea to make it cheaper for companies to ship things. I heard that his administration was proposing cutting the number of ministries as well.
In terms of preventing corruption, I doubt he'll do anything though. |
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legalquestions
Joined: 25 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:45 am Post subject: |
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I guess I'm at a loss due to the fact that I looked up the defiinition of conservative in the dictionary and couldn't see how it really related to any of his proposals. Guess I'm too much of a literalist when it comes to these things.
Again, anybody - just what is it that he will conserve? |
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atomic42
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:10 am Post subject: |
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Family values, the sanctity of marriage, Judeo-Christian traditions and any other WTF's which become the flavor of the day, I s'pose.  |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:12 am Post subject: |
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Guess I'm too much of a literalist...
Again, anybody - just what is it that he will conserve? |
If you accept that you are too much of a literalist, why ask again for someone to take his time to explain things in terms that you just agreed are too literal? |
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Milwaukiedave
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:28 am Post subject: |
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| I looked up the definition of redundant in the dictionary and it said, see redundant. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:29 am Post subject: Re: New "conservative" president - just what does |
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| legalquestions wrote: |
Help me out here.
I'm hearing a lot about how "conservative" the incoming administration will be and how "liberal" the current administration has been. Exactly what is it he/they will be "conserving?"
I think sometimes the media (and people in general) are too quick to apply labels. Again, help me out here. |
Yo Legal ...
Good question.
Thank God not everybody doesn't mindlessly fall for this shallow rhetorical crap.
CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE !!!
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:13 am Post subject: |
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| atomic42 wrote: |
| Family values, the sanctity of marriage, Judeo-Christian traditions and any other WTF's which become the flavor of the day, I s'pose. |
There was an article in the JoongAng Daily today about conservatives who are lobbying the government to revive the hoju family registration system, which offically stopped operating on Jan. 1st of this year. (The hoju made it mandatory for each family to be headed by a male, and biologaical fathers retained their authority even if they were long gone from the scene.)
LMB's older brother is a member of the group pushing for this proposed counter-reformation. Their plan is to target for defeat all legislators who voted to abolish the hoju in the spring assembly elections, which would mean pretty much all the Uri members and some of the GNP as well.
Not sure if LMB would want to make Korea an international laughingstock, not to mention the favorite whipping boy of feminists everywhere, by reviving an arachaic institution that members of his own party voted to eliminate.
Last edited by On the other hand on Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:32 am; edited 1 time in total |
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On the other hand
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